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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Leave, continuing education and trade union rights

Article R6152-714

Special leave of absence is granted by the director of the establishment to duly authorised practitioners' union representatives under the conditions set out in article R. 6152-73.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Leave, continuing education and trade union rights

Article R6152-713

Practitioners recruited on the basis of 3° of article L. 6251-1 must maintain and improve their knowledge. They are entitled to training leave, the duration of which is set at fifteen working days per…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Specific powers of the Paris Judicial Court and the Financial Public Prosecutor

Article 705

The Financial Public Prosecutor, the Examining Magistrate and the Paris Criminal Court exercise concurrent jurisdiction with that resulting from the application of Articles 43,52, 704 and 706-42 for t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 796

I. - The estates of:1° of servicemen of the French and allied armies who died under the flags during the war;2° of servicemen who, either under the flags or after being sent home, will have died, with…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Characteristics and approval of computerised ticketing systems

Article D212-79

…haracteristics and operation of computerised systems used to issue computerised tickets or dematerialised admission rights comply with specifications approved by joint order of the Minister for Cultur…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Special schemes and exemptions

Article 793

Sont exonérés des droits de mutation à titre gratuit : 1.1° (Expired); 2° (Repealed); 3° interest shares held in a forestry group up to three-quarters of the fraction of the net value corresponding to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 730

Where the custodial sentence handed down is for a period of less than or equal to ten years, or where, regardless of the sentence initially handed down, the period of detention remaining to be served…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 769

An entry shall be made in the criminal record of sentences or exemptions from sentences handed down after deferral of sentence, pardons, commutations or reductions of sentences, decisions suspending o…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2° Special schemes

Article 743

The following are exempt from land registration tax: 1° Construction leases; 2° Long-term leases concluded pursuant to articles L. 416-1 to L. 416-6, L. 416-8 and L. 416-9du code rural et de la pêche…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
A: Exercising the right of recourse

Article R40-7

If this has not already been requested during the proceedings before the first president of the court of appeal, the applicant and the judicial agent of the State may have copies of the criminal proce…

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